Synapse Manufacturing is built upon the powerful Synapse application development and on-line transaction processing environment. Instead of canned packaged best practices for the various manufacturing vertical markets, this design provides for broad adaptability throughout a wide variety of manufacturing scenarios.

This allows an individual company or location to describe their proprietary best practices rapidly within the Synapse model. The Synapse for Manufacturing framework brings an additional layer of rapid application development, optimized for the automation of the manufacturing plants processes.


Synapse is architecture that enables the incremental deployment of automation in manufacturing.

Synapse for Manufacturings rapid ability to describe any manufacturing process, automate that process, and provide real-time visibility to enterprise information and/or the supply chain provides a new capability in continuous improvement for plant automation. Synapse for Manufacturing can be implemented in logical steps and is not bound by a bundled integration that dictates it be installed in a certain way.

This iterative approach greatly reduces the risk of a flash cut to all new best practices which can be mandated by installing a new plant automation canned software package. With Synapse for Manufacturing the plants current processes can be quickly automated with real-time visibility to its data. The analysis of this data then dictates the sequence and increments of change. This capability sets in motion a continuous improvement automation infrastructure where processes can be systematically analyzed to determine the next rapid application change to be implemented.

Change is focused where it will yield the highest and quickest returns to the company. These returns can then fund further change and help lower the overall cost of the automation implementation. Change management of processes in a manufacturing plant is a huge risk factor which if done improperly can put the plant and possibly the whole company at risk. The Synapse approach allows for an organized systematic implementation where risk is minimized.

Because it adapts to any given manufacturing environment by configuration rather than extensive and time consuming coding modifications, Synapse Manufacturing helps manufacturing plants quickly adjust to changes in their production models as well as real-time changes in production priorities. Maintaining an accurate and flexible model in the production environment results in reduced cycle times, reduced inventory levels, and improved production quality. With Synapse Manufacturing, adaptation to any given manufacturing environment is only a matter of configuration and rule definition.